Naomi Wolf’s Vagina was released last week to seemingly more critical flak than fanfare. Concisely, Wolf’s cultural history of cunt, which employs lots of personal anecdotes, argues that a mind-vagina connection exists. For Wolf, scientific developments suggest that our ladyparts directly affect our ladybrains and that treating women and their, er, “yonis” like “goddesses” has [...]
My car broke down, but at first, I wasn’t scared. I was uncomfortable. I was in fetish wear, and deep down we all know that both men and women react differently to a person depending on what he or she wears. Last Saturday night, I was on my way to Miami to pick up a [...]
The concept behind the new photography exhibit at ActivistArtistA in Boynton Beach, which opened this past Friday night, hits close to home — hell, it even has journalist in its title. The exhibition is called “Journalist/Voyeur: The Work of Jonathan Dvoretz and Michael Herb,” and it runs through April. (Note: I haven’t checked it out [...]
Party hopping is one thing — trying to live out two completely different lifestyles in the same night is another. First up on Saturday’s double-header was the seventh Swarm party, entitled “Spring Break Forever,” inspired understandably by the time of year. Black Locust Society, which hosts these gatherings, represents South Florida’s faithful incarnations of Kid [...]
In the fall 2011 issue of Ms. Magazine, Jessica Mack skillfully details advents in male birth control. Although serious research into male contraception has been going on for more than a half century, researchers have yet to discover something analogous to “the pill” for men. Mack points to the U.S. vasectomy rate — one in [...]
With over 4,000 sex-related art pieces inside (including that famous ceramic dong from A Clockwork Orange, see above) the World Erotic Art Museum is not the immediate natural habitat in which you’d expect to find a 76-year-old devoted Jewish grandmother. But that is exactly where you’ll find Naomi Wilzig, museum creator, philanthropist, sex-positive grandmother of [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
